| Critics Reviews |
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| Source |
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| CNN.com |
"...enough abuse and vulgarity on display here to satiate a stadium full of Howard Stern fans." " more... |
| Cranky Critic |
"One of the Best of the Year..." more... |
| culturevulture.net |
"Marvelously alive and meticulously crafted..." more... |
| E! Online |
(grade: B+) "...Rush struts some Oscar-worthy charisma..." more... |
| Film Journal International |
"...too violent and sexually frank for art-house audiences and too wordy for thrill-seekers." more... |
| Film Threat |
(3 stars) "...artificial and over-designed..." more... |
| James Berardinelli |
(3.5 out of 4 stars) "...arguably the most provocative and best historical melodrama of 2000..." more... |
| Los Angeles Times |
"...tough to handle." more... |
| Planet Out |
"...every bit as vivid, torrid and zestful as anything the Marquis himself ever put to paper..." more... |
| Reel.com |
(3 out of 4 stars) "...intelligent, engaging, and stunning to look at, but it's just not very sexy." more... |
| Roger Ebert |
(3.5 out of 4 stars) "...supplies us with a Marquis toned down for popular consumption..." more... |
| Salon |
"...like an elaborate 18th-century woodcut come to life." more... |
| Spliced Online: Tortured Souls |
"Fictional De Sade bio 'Quills' a seductive psychosexual drama of censorship, prose, and perversion." more... |
| TV Guide |
(3 out of 5 stars) "...impassioned..." more... |
| USA Today |
(3.5 out of 4 stars) "Uniformly robust acting..." more... |
| USA Today: De Sade, the pleasure is ours |
(3.5 out of 4 stars) "...admirably fluid..." more... |
| Variety |
"...intelligently boisterous..." more... |
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